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If real, it wouldn't surprise me. A laptop isn't special. The most special part is the motherboard, and those are a dime a dozen designs. The bios soft is the

If real, it wouldn't surprise me. A laptop isn't special. The most special part is the motherboard, and those are a dime a dozen designs. The bios soft is the other big component, but given the right partnerships I could see a small company just paying to use one out of a dozen various vendors. The rest of the work is part sourcing.

chx 4y ago
What about the custom plastic parts? Aren't those injection moulded? If so, how much is a mould?
- komali2 4y ago
  Now I'm thinking about whether I could CNC a laptop case from a brick of aluminum...
  - stevehawk 4y ago
    isn't that what apple did/does?
    - wkat4242 4y ago
      It is exactly, yes. However doing this at small scale is very difficult to do cost-effectively.
- mastax 4y ago
  A mould is anywhere from a few thousand dollars for a small, simple, high-tolerance part, to many hundreds of thousands for a large, precision, complex mould with moving tools.
ahoya 4y ago
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